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| NJ- Maureen Taylor almost let go. | | | | on." |
| It had been years since she started suffering | | | | Taylor's story is less about a woman's search for |
| bizarre symptoms no doctor could explain or | | | | the proper medical treatment than it is about a |
| diagnose correctly, and only a week since she | | | | woman who finds the strength and wisdom to |
| found a doctor who had gotten it right. Her hands | | | | marry her medical treatment with her journey of |
| had hardened into swollen claws, her skin was | | | | inner healing. Taylor not only took back her health, |
| hard and shiny, and her feet were enlarged. Her | | | | but she also took back her life. |
| face was so rigid, she could barely open her | | | | Taylor's troubles were foreshadowed in her |
| mouth. She was losing her battle with | | | | childhood, when she began to suffer from fatigue |
| Scleroderma, an auto immune disorder that | | | | and anemia. In her early 20s, she experienced |
| forces the body to attack itself and overproduce | | | | poor circulation. By the time she was turning 40, |
| collagen, hardening the skin like a rock, disfiguring | | | | she developed aches, swelling in her hands and |
| her horrible and morphing her extremities into | | | | feet, her skin began to harden, and her head and |
| oversized paws. | | | | face went nearly numb. |
| "It was a Friday night, and I had a high fever, | | | | Then she went to see rheumatologist Dr. Hal |
| shaking with fever," said Taylor, author of the | | | | Whitman, and he was able to do in seconds what |
| autobiographical A Place To Go ( "I was trying to | | | | no other doctor had been able to do for the last |
| gobble baby aspirin into my mouth I could barely | | | | 2 years. |
| open. I remember struggling to get back upstairs, | | | | |